Our "Fearless Leader" Tries to Prove He's No Chicken
Bush was so paranoid about his 2.5 hour Campaign Sneak Attack
he was "fully prepared to turn around".
Bush Ready to Pull Plug on 2.5 hour Photo Op if Word Leaked Out

Nov 28, 2003 ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE - Three hours from landing on a high-risk visit to Baghdad,*** President Bush was most anxious about keeping it a secret. "I was fully prepared to turn this baby around, come home," Bush said later aboard Air Force One. The world did not learn that Bush had spent 2 1/2 hours in the Baghdad Airport Military Compound until his jumbo jet was again in the air, flying back to the United States

As the president was sneaking into a mess hall in a heavily guarded airport military compound, newscasters back home were reporting that he was enjoying Thanksgiving dinner with his family at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. That was what reporters had been told by White House officials.

Bush said he thought Americans would be understanding about the deception and the sneaking around because it was important for soldiers at risk to know that the commander in chief was willing to use them as a campaign photo opportunity after he had been ridiculed for his Mission Accomplished faux pas.

***This "HIGH-RISK visit to Baghdad" was really a 2.5 hour sneak into the heavily guarded Airport Military Compound under cover of darkness. If it was 'high risk' then what are the daily flights that bring Soldiers and supplies into Baghdad in broad daylight? Why didn't George just don another flight suit and make a quick trip on a military jet this time? Not one US Military Jet has been shot down in IRAQ since 'Mission Accomplished' and the only airplane that suffered a shoulder fired missile attack was landed safely. There was nothing "HIGH RISK" about this campaign photo op. Chickenhawk George and company would not do anything that could be considered "HIGH RISK" to themselves but they don't mind "HIGH RISK" for young soldiers.

Congress Is Spending 'like a Drunken Sailor'

Congress Is Spending 'like a Drunken Sailor'
Once again Republicans show they cannot curb spending or handle money.

Nov 30, 2003 Fox News Sunday - Congress is throwing away astonishing amounts, "spending money like a drunken sailor," and President Bush shares the blame because he is not using his veto power, Republican Sen. John McCain said Sunday. McCain, an avid critic of spending for lawmakers' pet projects in their districts and states, said the president's reluctance to veto legislation makes it harder for congressional negotiators to kill such spending.

Opposition from McCain, R-Ariz., and others kept the Senate from passing a $390 billion bill last week that would have paid for operations of 10 of 14 government departments and scores of lesser agencies. The legislation comes up again after the senators return from Thanksgiving recess, but it is unclear whether it will be this month or in January. Senate aides said McCain is expected to delay passage as long as possible.

"The numbers are astonishing," McCain said on "Fox News Sunday." "Congress is now spending money like a drunken sailor," said McCain, a former Navy officer, "and I've never known a sailor, drunk or sober, with the imagination that this Congress has."

He said growth of spending had been capped at 4 percent, but it was at least 8 percent higher. He said he will continue urging Bush to veto profligate spending bills. The president has not veto a single bill since he took office.

Asked if the president bears some responsibility for what is going on, McCain said: "Yes, because I think that the president cannot say, as he has many times, that 'I'm going to tell Congress to enforce some spending discipline' and then not veto bills."

An example, he said, is a massive energy bill, which also has been put aside until Congress reconvenes. "The administration originally supported an energy bill that would cost about $8 billion. This one is up to $24 billion, and the administration is still saying it's one of its highest priorities," McCain said. "I don't know how you rationalize that."

"Any economist will tell you cannot have this level of debt of increasing deficits without eventually it affecting interest rates and inflation," he said. "Those are the greatest enemies of middle-income Americans and retired Americans."

We need to elect legislators that will curb spending instead of these spendthrif Republicans.

A RUSH ON DRUGS TRIPLE FEATURE

The comments are finally coming on the New Rehabilitated Rush Limbaugh.
Enjoy this TRIPLE FEATURE from two small town papers and Reason.

Rush Limbaugh richly deserves prosecution

Monday Dec. 1, 2003 7pm. The Journal Standard: What's next? Many captains of industry and managers of most mutual funds seem to be crooks. Now we learn that America's premier right wing talk show host is a junky. Rush Limbaugh is back from five weeks in detox doing business at the same old stand: spewing bile and defaming liberals and Democrats 15 hours a week.

The interesting thing about this episode is that Rush sounds no different now than he did before detox, when he was high as a kite most of the time. Maybe drugs aren't so bad after all. It would be ironic indeed if Rush turns out to be the poster boy for legalizing drugs.

The difference between Rush and the average junky is Limbaugh could easily afford $100,000 a year for drugs. He didn't have to rob liquor and convenience stores to support his habit. So, maybe it is thinkable that admitted addicts buy their drugs at a pharmacy where they could be assured of reasonable prices and predictable quality and purity.

Rush's experience raises many questions: will he be tested periodically like professional athletes? How often? Will he tell us the results? It is a felony to purchase prescription narcotics on the black market as Rush did. Jeb Bush's daughter Noelle was prosecuted in Florida for attempting to buy drugs much milder than Oxycontin with a forged prescription.

Rush poses as a role model for young conservatives. What sort of example has he set? Limbaugh richly deserves prosecution.

RUSH MAKES A GOOD CASE FOR INCARCERATION

DEC 1 2002 The Southern Illinoisian Rush Limbaugh is back on the air after five weeks of drug rehabilitation, although experts say it could be weeks before Ol' Rushbo recovers his full sense of self-importance.

His return sermon bombarded listeners with fusillades of what sounded a lot like humility, evidence that his rehabilitative treatment had broken down his defenses, cracked through his sense of denial and gotten him in touch with his feelings, as well as his audience. It took at least a half hour before his voice could de-mellow enough to take a New Age-sounding shot at "lib-brools":

"... The attempt to manipulate lib-brools into changing who they are and becoming nice guys, and liking us is always going to fail because it's not our job to make them like us," he opined. "It's their job to like themselves. And the problem with lib-brools is, they don't like themselves... They're denying who they really are."

Heavy, man. Fans may be reassured that Limbaugh understands his fan base. De-tox has only given him a new vocabulary for his old act, which always has offered therapeutic value to those who yearn to feel good without being forced to think about things too much.

Conservative talk shows dominate radio chatter these days, partly by preaching an attractively oversimplified view of the world. In that world, nice rich guys like Limbaugh are not supposed to be drug abusers on the sly. Such awful horrors are supposed to be limited to those "other people," the ones who don't listen to conservative talk shows.

Such were the sentiments of the Old Rush, the Limbaugh who told listeners in October, 1995, that violators of drug laws "ought to be sent up."

Statistics that show blacks go to prison far more often than whites for the same drug offenses only show that "too many whites are getting away with drug use," the Old Rush said. His remedy? "... Go out and find the ones (white people) who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."

A newer Limbaugh surfaced in March, 1998. He advocated legalization and regulation of addictive drugs the way we regulate cigarettes and alcohol. "Make them taxpayers and then sue them," Rush said of the drug lords. "Sue them left and right and then get control of the price and generate tax revenue from it. Raise the price sky high and fund all sorts of other wonderful social programs."

Then the New Rush went into an odd radio silence on the subject of drugs, according his critics and drug groups who've monitored him. His shift of views and subsequence silence appeared to coincide with the beginnings of the Old Rush's now-revealed addiction.

On his return show, he offered that long silence as evidence that he was not a hypocrite on the subject of locking up drug abusers. "I was honest with you throughout the whole time," he told his listeners. "I was not as honest with myself." Fair enough. Pundits reserve the right to avoid taking positions on subjects in which they have a conflict of interest.

But, now that he has come out of the closet as a non-violent drug abuser, I cannot help but imagine how effective Limbaugh's powerful voice might sound on behalf of other non-violent drug abusers who could benefit from treatment instead of incarceration. This issue transcends political parties. He could make a very good conservative argument.

"My friends," he might say, "It's time for us to stop wasting our tax dollars on prison for first-time, non-violent drug offenders. "I'm talking about people who haven't robbed anybody or held up any liquor stores or hurt anybody but themselves trying to feed their drug addictions. "These people could benefit from drug treatment, my friends. Believe me, I know. Many of you know it, too, my friends.

"And you don't have to be a lib-brool to believe it. In the past few years, states like Texas, Kansas, Arizona, California and Hawaii have passed laws that mandate treatment instead of incarceration for first time drug offenders. Those aren't all lib-brool states, my friends. They're states with good hard working taxpayers who want to keep what they earn, not throw it away on more prisons when rehab can do the job for a lot less, money, pain and heartache.

"This is serious, my friends. We need to stop the madness. Write your senators and congressmen and governors, especially if you happen to live in Florida, the state where my own difficulties are still under consideration by some fine, upstanding officers of the law.

"Florida Gov. Jeb Bush opposed efforts to send first-time abusers to rehab instead of jail. Please let Gov. Bush know how happy you are that drug treatment worked so well for his daughter, Noelle, last year.

Rant: Drug Rush Limbaugh to listeners: I belong in jail!

December 2003 REASON: Rush Limbaugh may not be arrested, let alone spend time behind bars, for illegally buying narcotic painkillers. "We’re not sure whether he will be charged," a law enforcement source told CNN in early October. "We’re going after the big fish, both the suppliers and the sellers."

Following up on a story The National Enquirer broke on October 2, CNN reported that the conservative radio commentator’s name had come up during "an investigation of a black market drug ring in South Florida," where Limbaugh has a home. A former housekeeper told the Enquirer she had sold him tens of thousands of hydrocodone and oxycodone pills during a four-year period.

If Limbaugh escapes serious legal consequences, there will be speculation about whether a pill popper who wasn’t a wealthy celebrity would have received such lenient treatment. Still, the distinction between dealer and user drawn by CNN’s source is both widely accepted and deeply embedded in our drug laws.

That doesn’t mean it makes sense. If drug use is the evil the government wants to prevent, why punish the people who engage in it less severely than the people who merely assist them? That’s like giving a murderer a lighter sentence than his accomplice.

Another argument for sending Limbaugh to jail was suggested by the talk radio king himself. In an October 3 column, Newsday’s Ellis Henican cited remarks Limbaugh made in 1995 concerning the drug war’s disproportionate racial impact. "What this says to me," Limbaugh told his listeners, "is that too many whites are getting away with drug use....The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we’re not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river too."

Before we start building a boat for Limbaugh, perhaps we should consider the arguments for letting him keep his freedom. The strongest is that it’s nobody’s business but his if he chooses to pop Lorcet and OxyContin, as long as he’s not hurting anyone else. When the painkiller story broke, the New York Daily News reported that Limbaugh’s lawyers "refused to comment on the accusations and said any ‘medical information’ about him was private and not newsworthy."

On his show the next day, Limbaugh already was moving away from that position, promising to tell his listeners "everything there is." A week later, he announced he was entering treatment for addiction to painkillers he began taking after back surgery. "I take full responsibility for my problem," he declared, while blaming his situation on "highly addictive medication" (thereby reinforcing the opiophobia that has led to scandalous undertreatment of pain in this country).

The quick switch from privacy claim to public confession is reminiscent of Bill Bennett’s humiliating retreat on the issue of his gambling. Before renouncing the habit, the former drug czar noted that losing large sums of money on slots and video poker hadn’t "put my family at risk." Nor does it seem that the time Bennett spent in casinos interfered with his personal or professional life. It certainly did not keep him away from TV cameras and op-ed pages.

Likewise, drug use did not stop Limbaugh from signing an eight-year contract reportedly worth $285 million in 2001, or from maintaining a demanding schedule that included three hours on the radio five days a week, or from retaining his status as the nation’s leading talk radio host, reaching nearly 20 million listeners on about 600 stations. If his housekeeper hadn’t ratted on him, we might never have known about all those pills.

I’d say that’s how it should have been, except that Limbaugh seems to prefer a different approach. "If people are violating the law by doing drugs," he told his radio audience in 1995, "they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up." Maybe the government should respect his wishes.

REASON Dec 2003

The President did not have to sneak in and out of a war zone 4 years ago.
Four years ago this week the President of the United States flew into a war zone in broad daylight and had Thanksgiving Dinner with the troops. This year our President had to sneak into the Baghdad Airport under cover of darkness and remain in a heavily guarded military compound without allowing any coverage until he was 10,000 feet above Baghdad on his way home. The big difference is that Clinton was warmly received by a large contingent of troops in Kosovo, but more importantly was also warmly received by the natives prior to the event, who thanked him for their liberation.

Speaking in a chilly school gymnasium, Clinton drew round after round of cheers as he recounted the leading role the United States played in the 78-day air war against Yugoslav government troops.

"You cheered for us when we came in because when you were being oppressed we stood by you,'' Clinton said. The crowd was more subdued as Clinton continued: "We won the war, but listen: only you can win the peace. The time for fighting is passed.''

An 8th-grader, Ramadan Ilazi, introduced Clinton, "You promised that you will bring us to our homes safe. You kept your promise," the boy said.

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary November 23, 1999
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE U.S. TROOPS FOLLOWING THE THANKSGIVING WEEK MEAL
Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Well, the people at my table said that the speech I gave to the other troops was piped in here, which means it either was or it wasn't, and if it was, you heard it, and if it wasn't, you get relieved of hearing it. (Laughter.) Let me say to all of you how very grateful I am for your service here and for the power of your example here. As I said to the other troops, NATO won the military victory, but now the people of Kosovo have to win the peace, and you have to help them win it -- not only by doing your jobs, but by setting a good example.

This was a war caused by a man's determination to drive a whole people out of a country because of their ethnic and religious background. It's the opposite of everything we believe in, everything we live by, and everything the United States military stands for.

And you just look around this room today. We just celebrated Thanksgiving, with, I bet you, conservatively, 25 different ethnic groups represented among the American military forces here in this room -- maybe 50, maybe it's more.

We are interested and proud in and proud of our background, and we should be, but we know that our common humanity and our shared values are more important. That's the message that the children need to get here in Kosovo. And the more you work with people and the more you let children see you working together, having a good time, being proud of what you're doing, doing your job, living the American creed, you will also be fulfilling your mission by doing that.

Kids are not brought up hating each other because they're different, they have to be taught to do that. They've taught generations of people on this land, good people in both communities to do that, and now they've got to stop and you've got to help them. And I can't think of a better Thanksgiving present that you could give to them.

Let me also say that I was very honored -- I've got four members of the Congress here who voted for this, but I was very honored to sign the legislation which raised the pay and improved the retirement of members of the military. (Applause.)

But let me also say that we are well aware that in this good economy, with the training you've gotten in the military, that you're not serving for the money, but we think you ought to be properly compensated and have a good retirement, and it ought to be an incentive for you to stay if you're so inclined. But we honor your service, we need you, and on Thanksgiving, those of us who came here will be home and you will be a long way from home.

But you will be in our hearts, and I hope you know that what you're doing is a great, great gift to your country. Thank you very much. (Applause.)

WHAT IS GEORGE SO DESPERATE TO HIDE?

Why is he willing to stonewall, resist, thwart, and delay a Commission of his choosing?
Why is he dead set on keeping the TRUTH from the American Public and particularly the Victims of 9/11?

Initially an opponent of an independent commission, Bush signed legislation creating the panel on Nov. 27, 2002. He said the commission - five Republicans, five Democrats - "should carefully examine all the evidence and follow all the facts, wherever they lead."

If that is the truth MR. PRESIDENT please explain:
1) your insistence that the task be completed in a limited time
2) your failure to provide documents in a timely manner to allow the task to be completed
3) your failure to authorize funding for months in the early going.
4) your appointment of Max Cleland to the World Bank removing your main critic from the 9/11 commission.

Is it that you are a liar George?
What is it that you are so desperately trying to hide?

DEADLINE FOR COMPLETION OF 9/11 COMMISSION TASK IS THREATENED BY BUSH CAUSED DELAYS

Nov 26, 2003 WASHINGTON (AP) - Victims' relatives who pressed for an independent commission to investigate the Sept. 11 attacks say the panel risks being undercut by the government's failure to cooperate with it.

The Family Steering Committee, a group of victim advocates, marked the one-year anniversary of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States by urging an extension of its May 27 deadline for submitting findings and recommendations.

"Unfortunately, the production of a timely report no longer seems to be possible, in large part because of the delays caused by the (Bush) administration and the agencies that report to it," the group said Wednesday in a statement. Twelve people who lost spouses, children, siblings and parents in the Sept. 11 attacks formed the steering committee to monitor the work of the federal commission.

The leaders of the 10-member commission, Republican Thomas H. Kean and Democrat Lee Hamilton, said last week that they still intend to complete work by May 27. But they warned that further resistance from government agencies could threaten their ability to meet the deadline.

The panel has issued three subpoenas in the last six weeks - to the Federal Aviation Administration, the Pentagon, and New York City - saying those entities had not fully responded to document requests. The city said it will contest its subpoena, which seeks transcripts and recordings detailing the emergency response to the attack on the World Trade Center.

Also, the commission reached a deal with the White House over access to highly classified intelligence briefings that President Bush received in the weeks and months before the attacks. The panel agreed to several restrictions, including a limit on how many commissioners may examine the documents.

Meanwhile, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is making another effort to extend the deadline to apply to the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund past Dec. 22. The senator joined Brian Jordan, a grief counselor for the victims' families, in New York on Wednesday to announce a final appeal for Congress to move the deadline back one year.

Current law prohibits further applications for the fund from being accepted past the December deadline. Schumer said Congress could still help the families of the victims. "The pain for victims' families is particularly sharp around the holidays, and the idea that Congress refuses to take this up as the deadline looms adds insult to injury," said Schumer. "But there is still a small amount of time left. Congress can still do the right thing if it wants to."

Rush Limbaughtomy Reader Writes a Letter to the Editor
and receives Dittohead Hate Mail in Reply

Published Monday, November 17, 2003 Rush Limbaugh, Independence

Nita J. Wyrick ["Rush Limbaugh, What's Right," letter, Nov. 6] proved Ralph Borgsmiller's point ["Rush Limbaugh, ESPN," letter, Oct. 29] magnificently with her narrow-minded response to his excellent letter that pointed out how Rush Limbaugh's loyal listeners don't think for themselves. Just the fact that they proudly refer to themselves as "dittoheads" should be a good indicator of their mind-set.

Also, for Ms. Wyrick to refer to liberalism as a "mental defect" truly shows how misled people of her ilk are.

If you call implementing a living wage, affordable health care, ending corporate welfare, fully funded public education, and racial and gender equality "mentally defective," then I guess there are a lot more mentally defective people in this country than was previously thought. You can include the founding fathers in that group, too, seeing as how the Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal."

As a matter of fact, the Polk County supervisor of elections Web site says that there are thousands more voters registered as Democrats than as Republicans -- so does that mean that mental defectives are the majority in Polk County?

What else can we expect from a dittohead, though -- they've already demonstrated they cannot think for themselves and only repeat what their great leader Rush tells them to. Perhaps they should spend more time studying the facts and what "liberals" truly stand for rather than being told what to think by someone who's nothing more than an entertainer who is earning a pretty penny spouting half-truths and ugliness.

KATE BERNARD - Davenport

An Anonymous writer sent this to Kate in reply - hand written on a legal pad. Kate mailed the letter to me.

Here is the first half of the letter recreated as close to the original in caps., spelling, and punctuation as possible:

I'm GETTING TIRED oF ANSWERING
ALL YOU STUPID LIBERALS LETTERS.

TO YOU LADY, I GIVE A RESPONSE OF; HOW DUMB CAN YOU GET? REAL DUMB. DUMB TO BE A BRAINDEAD DEMOCRAT, WHOOPS NOT DEMOCRAT, SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT COMMY IDIOT

IF I WANTED TO LIVE UNDER SOCIALISM, I COULD MOVE TO ANY OTHER COUNTRY, AND I WILL FIGHT TO STOP YOU SOCIALISTS FROM RUINING THE USA

YOUR RIGHT, LIBERALISM IS NOT A MENTAL DEFECT IT IS A TOTAL BRAINDEAD DEFECT.

NOW, I'M 20 YEARS OLDER THAN RUSH AND MY POLITICAL FEELINGS AND BELEIFS ARE MINE, NOT RUSH'S.
HE JUST PORTRAYS MINE AND 35 MIL OTHER SMART AMERICANS.

WHEN A PERSON REGISTERS TO VOTE, THEY PICK A PARTY. MANY HAVE BEEN WHATEVER FOR YEARS.
DOE'S NOT MEAN THEY VOTE THAT WAY. REP. CONTROL POLK CO. I'VE VOTED DEMOCRAT BEFORE ALSO.
DEMOCRATS ARE NOT THE SAME TODAY. THE PARTY STANDS FOR SOCIALISM TODAY. SOCIALISM IS ANOTHER WORD FOR COMMUNISM.

LIBERALS ARE SOCIALISTS........

I think I get the drift. Democrats = Liberals, Liberals = Socialists, Socialists = Communists therefore all Democrats are Communists.

I guess Rush can be gratified that his message is getting through to someone.

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Senate Republican staff illegally accessing Democratic files

(11-25) 16:48 PST (AP) -- WASHINGTON(AP) -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said Tuesday he had put one of his staffers on administrative leave for improperly obtaining data from the secure computer networks of two Democratic senators.

Hatch, R-Utah, said preliminary interviews suggested that a former Republican member of the committee staff may have also been involved in penetrating the Democratic computers. "I was shocked to learn that this may have occurred," Hatch said in a statement. "I am mortified that this improper, unethical and simply unacceptable breach of confidential files may have occurred on my watch."

Hatch launched an investigation after Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., protested what they said was the theft of memos from their servers. The memos, concerning political strategy on blocking confirmation of several of President Bush's judicial nominations, were obtained and reported on by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times.

Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle informed Hatch on Monday that the committee's four computer servers had been disconnected and that daily backup tapes had been given to the U.S. Capitol Police for safekeeping. He said an outside expert would conduct a forensic assessment to determine if there had been unauthorized access to files.

Hatch said that, at his direction, two federal prosecutors assigned to the committee had conducted interviews with about 50 people. He said the interviews revealed that at least one current staff member had improperly accessed at least some of the documents that appeared in the media reports and which have been posted on the Internet. The person has denied leaking the information to the press, he said. The staff member, who was not identified, was put on administrative leave with pay pending the outcome of Pickle's investigation, Hatch said.

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WHAT WILL YOU MISS MOST OF THE THINGS RUSH DID TO MAKE YOU HAPPY?

Now that the "new and improved version" of the remade and rehabilitated Mumbo Jumbo has supplanted the good old Rush that we all had known and "loved"; what will you miss most?

Rush used to go out of his way to make us 'happy', but now that he has 'taken the cure' he is determined to remain 'drug free' by pleasing himself instead of 'others'. Rush indicates that his descent into the sordid and self-absorbed world of Hillbilly Heroin addiction was fueled by a 'self-loathing' borne of a over-reaching need to make us happy.

It would only be right that after so much happiness granted us by the magnanimous Mumbo Jumbo, we should be willing to give it up for the benefit of our benefactor. In keeping with that sentiment this is a little list of 'happy things' that Rush did for me that I am willing to do without:

1.) Staying out of Jail as a self-confessed drug addicted felon.
Now that Rush is determined to please himself he should be free to 'go to jail' as he has suggested all drug offenders should.
2.) Blaming almost everything on the Clinton's
This is a tough one because the happiness Rush delivered while blaming everything on the Clinton's will leave him with so little to talk about
3.) Blaming everything else on Liberals
Rush made so many of us happy by explaining that everything is the fault of Clinton's or Liberals. Giving this up will be a shock to the national psyche but it is time to let Rush focus on his own happiness instead of ours.
4.) That $285 million dollar broadcasting contract.
It will be sad to see it go but you gotta do what you gotta do Rush - go ahead and give it up.
5.) The $24 million dollar Palm Beach mansion
The big mansion is a source of joy for 'dittoheads' from coast to coast but you come first Rush and the burden of so much wealth and such a large estate is too dear a price to pay for the happiness of others.
6.) Those ridiculous book contracts.
Rush writing will sorely be missed but his happiness is threatened by those lucrative book deals.
7) Golf and cigars
Seeing Rush swing those clubs in synch with that huge cigar reminded us of Monica's posterior and put a smile on many faces with every image. Rush you have our blessing to lay down the clubs and the stogies.

Let's all send Rush the message that we are willing to sacrifice the happiness he has brought to us. Let Rush know what you are willing to do without to aid him in his recovery. He may become a self-centered self-righteous bigot instead of the loving and caring beacon of joy we have come to know and love. Let Rush know that you support him. Tell Rush about the happiness you are willing to do without in the comment section.


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Rush Limbaugh hypocritical about drug use, rehab centers
by Joe Shaw U-Wire The News Record (U. Cincinnati)

Rush Limbaugh is back. Watch out. The conservative media tyrant and Republican blowhard took a leave of absence from his radio show five weeks ago to go into rehab and rid himself forever of the evil clutches of his addiction to prescription painkillers.

Mind you, he did not admit to his abuse until after rumors swam through the media. He kept his dirty little secret while going on the air, day in and day out, to rail against those who broke the law and used drugs, claiming they "deserved to be there."

Shortly after returning to work, Rush claimed that his five-week, intensive rehab session at a facility in Arizona was "a wonderful process ... as important as the first grade and maybe the second grade." Since when did drug rehab become a wonderful process? If the movie "Trainspotting" taught us anything it is that rehab is about as far from wonderful as you can get.

On his show, Rush constantly blames drug users and sellers for the problems that face America today. On his show in 1995, he said that the answer to this problem was "to go out and find the ones who are getting away with (drug use), convict them and send them up the river, too."

Limbaugh admitted to using drugs illegally, yet there he stands, thanking his fans for their kind thoughts and prayers. Why isn't he standing before a judge, admitting that he, like the millions he denounced, deserves to be sent up the river? Doesn't this seem a little bit hypocritical? Limbaugh doesn't seem to think so. In a response to such claims, he says, "My behavior doesn't change right and wrong. And just because I may have been doing something that appeared to be contradictory to what I was suggesting others do doesn't mean that what I was suggesting others do is wrong ... There's no hypocrisy in this."

Now he expects us to sit idly by while he parades himself as a national hero for overcoming his drug addiction. He expects us to feel sorry for him, to have compassion for him the way he has never had compassion for the millions of others who continue to struggle with their addictions. But this is not unexpected. Limbaugh has been an idiot for quite a long time and he'll continue to be an idiot for years to come.

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He loved the Rush

He loved the Rush

Nov. 20, 2003: Rush was a major-league pill-popper, and has been broadcasting for years under the influence of controlled substances. I have no problem with Rush doing the illegal drugs of his choice. It's his body – he owns it, not the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Perversely, Rush has always been a drug warrior. In a Playboy interview, in December 1993, he said: "By legalizing drugs, all you're going to do is define deviancy further downward." The same month, on his radio show, he said: "I'm appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say 'People are going to do drugs anyway – let's legalize it.' It's a dumb idea, a rotten idea. And those who are for it are purely, 100 percent selfish." Rush has never been a clear thinker, or intellectually honest.

The discovery of Rush's liking for opiates makes him a hypocrite, as well as an insufferable blowhard. For the last three years, he's been nothing but an unconscionable flack for the Republican Party, reflexively supporting anything they do or say. My guess, therefore, is that Rush won't be arrested for buying and doing illegal narcotics, as if he were a black, or some white trailer park trash. He's entirely too well wired with the Republicans.

Rush could say something like this:

Sure, drugs are a bad habit, like alcohol, nicotine and caffeine. While the opiates I like give me a nice ... rush ... I realize that they have damaged my hearing and resulted in chronic constipation. I would, objectively, perhaps, be better off without them. I'm an adult, and I can afford the pleasure financially. I only regret having been a craven hypocrite all these years, and I want to apologize for that. But nothing else. So I'm going to do the hard, but intellectually honest, thing and recant my previous ill-advised views on drugs. And on a lot of other things. I can see that the government isn't my friend ... etc, etc.

More likely, Rush is going to turn over on his back and wet himself, begging forgiveness for breaking the law, blaming it on the addictive nature of drugs. He'll say he's a poster boy for why enforcement should be tougher yet, to save people like him from themselves. He could become as rabid as an ex-smoker around cigarettes. The revelation of which way he'll go is almost enough to get me to listen to his sorry show again.

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WILLIAM BENNETT TO REPLACE RUSH LIMBAUGH AT "STATESMAN OF THE YEAR" DINNER
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Nov. 20, 2003 1:42 p.m. EST The Claremont Institute announced Wednesday that Rush Limbaugh will not be in attendance at the Institute's annual Churchill Dinner on Friday, Nov. 21, 2003. Mr. Limbaugh was to receive the Claremont Institute's Statesmanship Award at that time. The Institute announced that Dr. William J. Bennett, recently appointed Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute, will deliver the keynote address at the event instead.

From his New York studio, Rush said: "Because I must limit my travel for the remainder of this year, I am unable to attend the Claremont Institute's Churchill Dinner on November 21. I deeply regret the inconvenience and disappointment caused the Claremont Institute by my having to postpone my appearance at such a late date. However, I am hopeful that we can re-schedule my attendance at another event in 2004. I greatly admire and respect the Claremont Institute and am very honored to have been chosen for this prestigious award." (Because he must limit his travel? Why? Have the cops told him not to leave the State?)

Dr. Bennett was the nation's first drug czar in the George H.W. Bush administration (so you know Bill and Rush have much in common since Rush is the Hillbilly Heroin King). Dr. Bennett has authored books on moral Virtues (like gambling and losing 100's of 1,000's of $$$).

Did Winston Churchill ghost rise from the grave to bring the Claremont Institute to it's knees? Did someone point out that a "drug addled, money laundering, felon might not be the best choice for a "Statesman of the Year" award?

Well the institute probably had second thoughts - but who was the moron who decided a hypocritical gambler was the second choice? Is the Claremont Institute really a lunatic asylum? Stay tuned.

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